Industry analysts say it is hard to predict how all this will turn out.

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As a result, Hiramatsu and other reformers are challenging the system, demanding greater authority to raise money and more say over how it's doled out.

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How it will all play out is impossible to say.

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Is it possible to just flat out say how many jobs have been created?

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By the beginning of this week, sources say, it had not even managed to find out how many trades the global equity derivatives division had done.

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Kelsey also warns that it's too early to say how this week's transition worked out.

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With most major economies in East Asia suffering their deepest recessions since World War II, brave is the forecaster willing to say just when the sun will come out -- and how strongly it will shine.

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In a similar vein, the director of Hanover's chamber of industry and commerce, Wilfried Prewo, points out how much harder it is to become a taxi-driver in Germany than, say, in the United States.

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And if they're running to run our government, they need to come out with an honest answer and say this is what happened, this is how it happened, and this is what we're going to do to rectify it.

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